Principal Investigators:
- Dr Louise GallagherDirector of Midwifery Programmes and Head of Discipline of Midwifery/ Assistant Professor in Midwifery Louise is an academic and researcher with a diverse portfolio of research interests in midwifery and womens health. She teaches and supervises across the undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery programmes.
- Professor Agnes HigginsProfessor in Mental Health Agnes leads a research team that focuses on service-user and family engagement in the development and reform of the mental health service. Central themes in her research are recovery, co-production, peer and rights based models.
- Dr Eleanor M HollywoodAssistant Professor in Children’s Nursing Eleanor lectures undergraduate and postgraduate students and previously served as Head of Discipline, Children ’s Nursing for 4 years and Course Co-ordinator for Post-Graduate Specialist Nursing programmes for 1 year.
- Professor Joan G LalorProfessor of Maternal Health Professor Lalor has a particular interest in prenatal diagnosis and perinatal palliative care. More broadly her research interests include optimising maternity and health service delivery, health humanities, ethics and law.
- Dr Vivienne BradyAssistant Professor in Midwifery Vivienne teaches and supervises across undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery programmes. Her specific research interests are in action research, womens health and maternity care. Vivienne is Postgraduate Course Co-Ordinator on Higher Diploma in Midwifery.